TY  - BOOK
ED  - Women's Legal Services Australia
TI  - Non-payment of child support as economic abuse of women and children: a literature review
PY  - 2024///
PB  - Women's Legal Services Australia
KW  - CHILD WELFARE
KW  - DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
KW  - ECONOMIC ABUSE
KW  - ECONOMIC ASPECTS
KW  - INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
KW  - JUSTICE
KW  - LITERATURE REVIEWS
KW  - SEPARATION
KW  - SOCIAL POLICY
KW  - WOMEN
KW  - INTERNATIONAL
KW  - AUSTRALIA
N2  - The non-payment of child support is a deeply gendered issue and remains an unrecognised form of economic abuse by many Australian Government agencies and financial institutions. The report reveals extensive evidence of the way fathers are using child support as a weapon to perpetrate ongoing gendered violence against mothers. 

The current system for child-support in Australia intends for one parent to pay money to another for the purpose of supporting their shared child/ren, following separation. In reality, women – who are often the primary caregivers of children in separation agreements – are regularly denied their child-support entitlements by paying fathers and face little to no course of redress under the current complex system.  

Clients of Women’s Legal Services from across Australia describe the child-support system as a ‘tool of violence’, Women’s Legal Services Australia Executive Officer, Lara Freidin says, where perpetrators of violence can simply continue their abuse under the system by withholding payments, often without penalty. (From the website). Record #8735
UR  - https://www.wlsa.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Womens-Legal-Services-Australia-Child-Support-Literature-Review-May-2024.pdf
UR  - https://www.wlsa.org.au/new-report-reveals-how-australias-child-support-system-facilitates-economic-abuse-of-women/
ER  -